Category: Reviews-HowTos

Ô¿¼The half moon design speaks about what to expect overall from the Pure Contour i1 Air Dock: it is a speaker that looks to blend into surroundings while being an everyday tool in your home or office environment. Compatible with a large range of Apple products, one is left to wonder if Pure was throwing the d ……

TextUS.biz’s Receptionist app works on a simple principle: Most businesses, even larger businesses, no longer employ fulltime receptionists to sit at the front desk waiting for someone to walk into the office. Whether you work in small, shared, …

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Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride creator Halfbrick takes on publishing duties for Band Stars, a charming but shallow game by Six Foot Kid that lets you climb the charts and conquer the music world. It takes after Kairosoft’s (Game Dev Story, Dungeon V…

In recent years, we’ve seen an increasing number of Mac apps from China and Russia make a play for American users as well. Foxmail 1.2 (Mac App Store link), the new free email client from Chinese Internet company Tencent, acquits itself better t…

Piasa’s Grilly the Cheese is a side-scrolling runner game where you play as a grilled cheese sandwich. Now, there’s no backstory as to why Grilly has left his home. Maybe he barely escaped the grubby hands of a little boy ready to chomp down o…

The Sony PS4 is the most important console Sony has yet produced, especially as some observers argue that it could be one of the last dedicated gaming consoles with rise of mobile devices and high-quality casual gaming. It is Sony’s proposition for why…

Over its last two iterations, the Assassin’s Creed series – primarily known for letting players climb on historically significant landmarks and get stabby in different time periods – has increasingly become known for something unexpected: 18th cent…

Vine and Instagram make it easy for would-be filmmakers to create brief epics of the imagination using just an iPhone, with no traditional editing required. But those looking to expand their horizons will find far more creative options with a modestly …

Our productivity folders are filled with apps we once loved: Pretty utilities with minimal interfaces and slick navigation that were quickly supplanted by the next great to-do app. Tasky+ comes awfully close to being that next great option. Built aroun…

I recently had a problem with one of my mail accounts (and before you ask, no, it wasn’t Gmail under Mavericks). The issue was that the account, which is provided by Dreamhost, is located on a mail server named one thing (mail.doombot.com), but i…

Pencil is FiftyThree’s first foray into the stylus market, and the company has made it an exciting one: The dual-sided aluminum pen integrates deeply with FiftyThree’s Paper app to provide extra tools and control you might not get from simply …

My fingers aren’t as nimble as they once were, a fact proven to me when TechHive tested mobile phone keyboards. Turned out that I had the worst typing speed of all the participants involved. So it took a good while for me to get the hang of the…

One-man indie studio Damp Gnat (a.k.a. Reece Millidge) has proven itself a purveyor of experiences that are short, sweet, and sensationally stunning. Last year’s single-screen iPad mini-golf course in Wonderputt made a strong mark, and it’s followe…

There are snapshots and photo albums, but it seems like there’s nothing in between—at least for still images. Except, that’s not true.

Collages are a great way to showcase a small group of photos that tell a story in a unique way. Instead …

Skulls of the Shogun, a game about a recently slain samurai fighting his way though the afterlife, is nothing if not slow. Its bright palette, bawdy humor, and straightforward concepts suggest an easy, breezy turn-based strategy game, but large maps, l…